Re: Linux Sound Issues
Hmm, I think hdparm did the trick... turin:~# hdparm -t /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: Timing buffered disk reads:8 MB in 3.76 seconds = 2.13 MB/sec turin:~# hdparm -d1 /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: setting using_dma to 1 (on) using_dma= 1 (on) turin:~# hdparm -t /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: Timing buffered disk reads: 106 MB in 3.01 seconds = 35.22 MB/sec I thought of messing around with hdparm, never realized how easy it was. So far I haven't noticed any audio skipping when playing movies in kplayer or playing mp3s while running find and apt-cache search at the same time and didn't hear any skipping. Although I've heard that enabling DMA on VIA686B could cause data corruption and that's why it's disabled by default, I guess I'm willing to take the risk. A very big thank you to everyone that helped me. = - Paul Burkett __ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux Sound Issues
I've been having a helluva time to get sound working decently in Linux. The issue isn't so much quality (though I do notice a slight difference in quality compared to Windows, nothing to complain about) but that fact that is skips whenever I do anything that requires CPU resources. I've tried recompiling the kernel to make it more efficient and I've tried using the latest drivers from Creative. It doesn't skip as much but there are times when it does skip when playing an mp3. Usually it happens when I'm running any apt tools. Now I don't know if it is so much the fault of the CPU (an AMD Tbird 1GHz) or the soundcard (a POS SB Live), but I do notice kjournald running in the background when I check it out using top. Could it be ext3 is just a lot slower than ext2 and can't handle it? Is there anything I can do to tweak this? Or should I move onto XFS or ResierFS? Should I buy a new sound card? Should I try ALSA? Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks again guys and gals. System Info: AMD 1GHz Thunderbird 512MB of RAM Running KDE Ext3 Filesystem Kernel 2.4.22 compiled for i686 Debian Unstable 40GB Maxtor 740DX HDD Dedicated to Linux SB Live! Sound Card (OEM) Via686B Chipset (Abit KT7A-RAID MB) AFAIK I didn't have this problem in Mandrake 8 but that was so long ago. = - Paul Burkett __ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgrading to a new release
Basically, I have Debian Woody (3.0) CDs and since I didn't want to burn a new CD for unstable, I went ahead and installed it. Now what I want to know is, how do I upgrade to unstable? Is it a matter of adding APT::Default-Release testing; to /etc/apt.conf, and adding unstable to the sources.list? Or will I have to add a pin priority? One of the Debian Manuals recommends using dselect instead of APT to upgrade to new releases, is this a better way of doing it? Or should I just do an apt-get dist-upgrade? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks! = - Paul Burkett __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading to a new release
PS, sorry for the formatting of this email :( --- Paul Burkett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically, I have Debian Woody (3.0) CDs and since I didn't want to burn a new CD for unstable, I went ahead and installed it. Now what I want to know is, how do I upgrade to unstable? Is it a matter of adding APT::Default-Release testing; to /etc/apt.conf, and adding unstable to the sources.list? Or will I have to add a pin priority? One of the Debian Manuals recommends using dselect instead of APT to upgrade to new releases, is this a better way of doing it? Or should I just do an apt-get dist-upgrade? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks! = - Paul Burkett __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] = - Paul Burkett __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading to a new release
Sweet! Thanks man, just wanted to make sure I wasn't gonna break anything :P (Not that I really care since this is my desktop/test server.) --- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 11:02:12AM -0700, Paul Burkett wrote: Basically, I have Debian Woody (3.0) CDs and since I didn't want to burn a new CD for unstable, I went ahead and installed it. Now what I want to know is, how do I upgrade to unstable? Is it a matter of adding APT::Default-Release testing; to /etc/apt.conf, and adding unstable to the sources.list? Or will I have to add a pin priority? One of the Debian Manuals recommends using dselect instead of APT to upgrade to new releases, is this a better way of doing it? Or should I just do an apt-get dist-upgrade? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks! Basically just edit /etc/apt/sources.list and replace all occurences of the word stable with unstable. Then do apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. That's what I usually do. I feel that this is the best/easiest way to get unstable onto my computer. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature name=signature.asc = - Paul Burkett __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Network setup
Sorry about that Paul...I meant to send that to the list :P Anywhoo, do you have your gateway specified correctly? What happens when you type 'route' as root? --- Paul William [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what is the output of ifconfig and what are the ip addresses of the other machines on the network with the server? On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 09:42, Simon Windsor wrote: Hi I have relocated a server from within a firewalled environment on a 192.168.0 network, to an external network. Unfortunately, I cannot get the the server to talk to the network now. I have edit /etc/network/interface /etc/networks /etc/hosts I have stopped and started the network, and checked the settings against another debian server outside the firewall, and still no joy. FTP, ssh and ping all report No route to host. Any ideas ? Many thanks Simon Windsor Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 01454 617689 Mob: 07720 447385 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. Mailscanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] = - Paul Burkett __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading to a new release
Beautiful! I got some errors doing apt-get dist-upgrade but running dselect (twice) it looks like everything is working. I have newfound respect for dselect and love Debian even more! Thanks guys/girls, you've been so helpful! Now it's time to get X working... --- Antonio Rodr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 16:14:48 -0400 Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 11:02:12AM -0700, Paul Burkett wrote: Basically, I have Debian Woody (3.0) CDs and since I didn't want to burn a new CD for unstable, I went ahead and installed it. Now what I want to know is, how do I upgrade to unstable? Is it a matter of adding APT::Default-Release testing; to /etc/apt.conf, and adding unstable to the sources.list? Or will I have to add a pin priority? One of the Debian Manuals recommends using dselect instead of APT to upgrade to new releases, is this a better way of doing it? Or should I just do an apt-get dist-upgrade? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks! Basically just edit /etc/apt/sources.list and replace all occurences of the word stable with unstable. Then do apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. That's what I usually do. I feel that this is the best/easiest way to get unstable onto my computer. Bijan I would also add: Try not to install too many packages from stable, since many could lead you to broken dependencies, due to absences or so in the unstable branch. Just have a basic one running, and then, if you feel lazy, once you have converted to sid, run tasksel. Another thing is that some times aptitude will show broken dependencies, go then with dselect, and with apt-get with all its different options. I have noticed that by cycling through them, you can fix most (if not all) the dependenciy problems. Good luck. = - Paul Burkett __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IMAP with virtual users
I've been working on this project for about 2 months now (non-work related) and I'm pretty fed up with googling and RTFM'ing. Basically what I'm doing is setting up an IMAP server (Courier) with virtual users (MySQL) using Postfix as my MTA. So far the HOWTO provided by Mischa Peters (http://high5.net/howto/) has been the most helpful. I'm able to add users through the web-based interface Postfix Admin (because I have no clue how to add users manually) everything appears to be fine. I can see the users being added to the tables in the database, but I'm still unable to log in using squirrelmail and imp. The only thing that I can see wrong is this: debian-server:/var/log/apache# tail -f /var/log/syslog Aug 29 11:00:25 debian-server postfix/smtpd[6969]: fatal: dict_open: unsupported dictionary type: mysql Aug 29 16:00:26 debian-server postfix/master[901]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd pid 6969 exit status 1 Aug 29 16:00:26 debian-server postfix/master[901]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling From what I've read, this is due to me not running 'makemap' unfortunately the version of Courier included with Debian does not seem to have makemap. Does anyone have any experiences or suggestions with this? I'm really sorry I'm posting this in a Debian mailing list, but it is my belief that this has more to do with Debian than anything else (well, other than me being an idiot.) If anyone can point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated. System Info: Pentium Pro 200 128MB RAM Debian (Woody 3.0) Linux 2.4.18-bf2.4 Please let me know if you need any more information, thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Secret APT commands?
Hey, I'm wondering if there is any apt-get commands that I don't know of. One that I would find interesting would be the option to install in something other than the default directories when I issue a apt-install command. You guys have any ideas? Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Secret APT commands?
Hmm, when I do that, I get the following error: debian-server:/usr/local/src/apache# dpkg --install --root=/usr/local/apache/ apache-common_1.3.26-0woody1_i386.deb dpkg: unable to access dpkg status area: No such file or directory debian-server:/usr/local/src/apache# of. One that I would find interesting would be the option to install in something other than the default directories when I issue a apt-install command. You guys have any ideas? Thanks! Depends on what you are looking for. As far as I know, more detailed options can be optained by running dpkg. The disadvantage is that you have to download the packages manually. For example, to install a package in a different directory, e.g. see /tmp/root as /, type: dpkg --install --root=/tmp/root blabla.deb if I am not mistaken. Greetz, Sebastiaan -- NT is the OS of the future. The main engine is the 16-bit Subsystem (also called MS-DOS Subsystem). Above that, there is the windoze 95/98 16-bit Subsystem. Anyone can see that 16+16=32, so windoze NT is a *real* 32-bit system. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Secret APT commands?
Sweet! Thanks dude, I have no problem RTFM but I couldn't really find much in man apt-get. I'll give man apt.conf a shot. On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 05:17:45PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: * Paul Burkett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021206 13:50]: Hey, I'm wondering if there is any apt-get commands that I don't know of. One that I would find interesting would be the option to install in something other than the default directories when I issue a apt-install command. You guys have any ideas? Thanks! Yeah, a little-known one called man apt-get ;-) actually, the package-relocation you speak of is implemented via dpkg's root, admindir, and instdir options, and is great for setting up chroots. Look into man apt.conf to see how to specify options to how apt-get invokes dpkg. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- http://www.eff.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
